Assessment of the perceptual threshold of touch (PTT) with high-frequency transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (Hf/TENS) in elderly patients with stroke: A reliability study

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 825-834

  Eek, Elsy ^a   Engardt, Margareta ^b  

^a DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SKIN ELECTRODE; SKIN TINGLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROKE; TOUCH; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; TOUCH; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0345329235     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026921550301700803     Document Type: Article

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